No Identification Yet Of Man Held In Alabama
Reports that Kinnie Wagner was captured in Birmingham have not been confirmed. Officials and relatives question the identification, papers from Bristol are en route, and there is speculation a different man may be held. Wagner faces multiple murders and escaped from Blountville jail after a 1919-20 crime spree.
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Alabama
Kinnie Wagner
Birmingham
Ala
Lave
Heatherlin
Bristol
Joe Thomas
Sullivan County
Thamas
Kinnie
Oscar Wagner
Vis
Turner
Greene County
Miss
Wagner
Blountville
Man Identified by Inmate As Suspect Wagner in Bristol Murder Case
In Birmingham on October 15 a man arrested as Kinnie Wagner, sought for the Bristol Tennessee slayings of three officers, was identified by a black prisoner who said he shared jail time with Wagner in Knoxville. The arrestee initially admitted being Wagner but then claimed he was D A Wyras dick and had been in Birmingham.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Kinnie Wagner
Wagner
Bristol
Kimmie Wagner
Holston
Shevil H. C. Webb
John Smith
Waycross
Brountville
Blountville
Greene County
Miss
Wanten
Tennessee
Knoxville
Penn
D. A. Wyrasdick
Birmi
MacNider Named Assistant Secretary of War
Washington October 15. Hanford MacNider of Mason City Iowa is appointed assistant secretary of war completing the department reorganization after Secretary Weeks resignation and Dwight F Davis advances to the cabinet post. Coolidge places young affairs under two World War veterans.
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Washington
Hanford MacNider
Mason City
Iowa
Weeks
Dwight F. Davis
Coolidge
Sweden harvest reduces U S flour imports says crop bigger
Stockholm reports Sweden's breadstuff crop this year is as large as last year and rye and wheat yields beat expectations. Imports of American wheat flour will be cut from 539000 tons in 1923 to 166000, due to the milder winter and strong harvest.
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Stockholm
Sweden
General Isaac R. Sherwood Civil War Hero Dies at 90
Toledo Ohio October 15 General Isaac R. Sherwood 90 retired congressman and Civil War veteran died at his home after days of unconsciousness. He rose from private in the Fourteenth Ohio Infantry to brigadier general of volunteers and served 43 battles with 123 days under fire earning six commendations. He served in Congress for nine terms beginning at age 8 in a remarkable public life.
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Toledo
Isaac R. Sherwood
Ohio
Congress
Sheragood
Amus Sedoon Yeague
Sherwood
Fourteenth
Ohio Infantry
Rasaca
Franklin
Tenn
Nashville
J Army
Cattle Hogs and Sheep Markets Reported in Louisville
Markets in Louisville Kentucky on October 16 show cattle at about 300 head, slow to steady. hogs around 300 with steady to 75 cents higher. sheep near 100 with steady prices.
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Louisville
Dawes Urges Elimination of Senate Rules and Filibuster
Vice President Charles G Dawes addressed a large Atlanta audience urging elimination of filibuster in Senate procedure highlighting the Force bill as an example of unjust legislation He argued that minority obstruction should not block general legislation and urged reforms to prevent hold up in ordinary business as the nation remains one.
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Atlanta
Charles G. Dawes
United States Senate
Senate
Atlanta Auditorium
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Dewes
Investigation of Shenandoah wreck nearing finish
The Shenandoah airship inquiry in Washington ended its main hearings today with the designer and engineers from the Bureau of Aeronautics and Aluminum Company of America on the stand. Officials caution the final finding may take weeks after material tests by the Bureau of Standards, while survivors and officials debate whether structural changes or the storm caused the disaster.
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Associated
Washington
Oct
Shenandoah
Naval Court of Inquiry
Buyeau of Aeronautics
Aluminum Company of America
Bureau of Standards
Bureau of Aeronautics
Anton Heinen
Ohio
C. P. Burgess
Jerome
Hunsaker
Naval Athack London
Arbitration Treaty Adopted Bearing on German Fronts
From Locarno Switzerland Oct 16 the security conference adopted arbitration treaties affecting Germany eastern frontiers. Delegates say other conventions centered on the Rhine pact create machinery to settle disputes among signatory powers. A reading delegate said the aim is to make it impossible to draw a sword.
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Tun
Prost Locarne
Switzerland
Security Conference
Germany
Martians Need Home Brew Says Mount Wilson Scientist
Dr Charles E St John of Mount Wilson Observatory says home brew may sustain Martians if life exists and there is moisture Water on Mars is about one twentieth of Southern California mountains oxygen levels are around 60 percent of Earths and Mars receives roughly half the suns light Cassette-like notes compare Mars to Earth in heat and light absorption
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Modsted
Pasadena
Cal
Mars
Charles E. St. John
Mount Wilson Observatory
Dr. St. John
Californi
Moun
Everest
Himalays
Mount’ Everest
First Arrests in Hunt for Alleged Milwaukee Murderers
Milwaukee detectives took Howard J. Pratt of Milwaukee into custody for questioning as the first arrests in the case of Madalyn Latimer and James Sears were announced. Two Kenosha men were also detained. authorities withheld their names. Latimer’s twin Evelyn said her sister lived in fear of a Milwaukee man who had threatened her, and investigators noted possible jealousy from another woman connected to Sears.
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Associated Prose
Milwaukee
Wis
Madalyn Latimer
James Sears
Kenosha
Howard J. Pratt
Sherif Frank Williams
Evelyn
Jilly
Madelyn
Sears
South Dakota Starts Political Pot Boiling December 1
South Dakota prepares for the 1926 national campaign with party meetings and candidate designations starting December 1 in Pierre. Republicans Democrats and former authorities split on private industry participation as delegates gather November 10 and 17 to select three proposal men per party.
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Prose
Pierre
South Dakota
United States Senate
Congress
Republican Party
Peter Norbeck
Carl Gunderson
Sam H. Elrod
Pirty
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